Republican Laura Carno has formed a new group, which she said is designed to counter what she sees as a fake “War on Women.”

The El Paso County political operative used her own money for the initial startup of a 527 political group “I Am Created Equal,” which will be running radio and TV ads throughout the election. This week it launched its first radio spot.

“The president’s campaign implies that women should vote for the president for re-election because he will give them equal rights,” Carno said. “What the president fails to acknowledge is that the government doesn’t give us our rights. They simply are our rights. We just want the government out of our way.”

Hey, Washington politicians, How ‘bout this. I’ll take care of my insurance, I’ll decide what soda to drink and I’ll get my own birth control, thank you very much. All of your new laws, government bailouts and huge deficits haven’t made my life any better. So I’ll tell you how to do your job for a change: Stop trying to be all things to all people. Protect our country, balance the budget — just like I have to — and then get out of my way.

President Obama, you were supposed to understand all of this. But you spend more, waste more and get less done than anyone I can remember. In my world you leave me with two choices. I can stop believing in my country, or I can give the other guy a try. I know this much Mr. President, I’ve worked too hard and deserve better than this. Learn more at I Am Created Equal.Com.

Carno’s been a fixture in Colorado politics in recent years. She worked at the state Capitol for Rep. Amy Stephens of Monument, and on Republican Steve King’s winning Senate campaign. She also has done work for congressional candidate Robert Blaha of Colorado Springs, and Rep. Marsha Looper of Calhan. And she managed Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach’s campaign.

Members of I Am Created Equal’s advisory board include former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez, former state treasurer Mark Hillman and Shari Williams of Leadership Program of the Rockies.

You’ll get your own birth control, alright. But forget to take it one month, or let it lapse and get pregnant and abortion won’t be one of your choices. Repubs like this one love to tout stuff like “We just want the government out of our way.” In reality, they want it out of their way but not out of everyone elses. They want education — and scholarships/vouchers — for their kids, but not anyone else. They want abortion to be illegal unless they need it. Its all about them and to heck with the rest of us. Well, to that I say, “NO THANKS.”

TruthB

LOL – GOP bringing no funding to planned parenthood and republicans stand against abortion. This stuff is casting a wide libertarian constitutionalists net.

Sorry, but some of the dumbest women alive are in the GOP. They are being used temporarily until the white man can get fully back into power. Even a Republican haack said it on Fox news, “women should have never been given the power to vote.’ Until 1979 in Texas, a husband could still kill his wife and get a way with it. Republicans serve the control freak rich whom without their money, could not survive a day in the lives the rest of us do.

Ann Elin

Another ignorant woman who has no idea that women were not created and have never been treated equally. Hopefully she never has to go a forced transvaginal exam forced on pregnant women seeking an abortion – that kind of thing sure doesn’t keep government out of the way.

Maybe she can take some of the funds she grifts from some of the more stupid women who ‘donate’ to her cause and get educated on how long it women to get the right to vote and some of the other things that occur in society because women are not created equally. What an idiot – she’s just another republic embarrassment to women, a la snow snooki in Alaska and dingbat bachmann in Minnesota.

Anon

Name calling… that’s a great way to show you’re on the winning side of the argument…

enedina

Ann – are you kidding? Riddle me this: how many unborn women are aborted every year and large majority whom are black? It was the progressive women that started the ‘women’s movement’ and the Real War: Against Defenseless Unborn Women

Ann Elin

Sorry toots, you and your republic brethren can’t have it both ways: pretending to care about minority women and the fetuses they might abort or your party’s incessant bitching and moaning about minorities having to many damned babies that they can’t support.

Frankly, because abortion is still legal in this country, I don’t really care how many unborn female fetuses are aborted each year – and they aren’t women, they’re fetuses, so stop with the hysterical naming conventions. Someone else having an abortion isn’t your business unless it’s your womb or your sperm involved – so how about working towards that want of smaller government by focusing on your own damned family instead of butting into other people’s business?

” I don’t really care how many unborn female fetuses are aborted each year ”
Great. Really makes me want to take your side in the argument, here.

Anonymous

we might be “created” equal, but that won’t stop men from exploiting women. Men think that it is their right given to them by a hallucinogenic imaginary god to mess up the world and take advantage, and exploit everything. I can only imagine what horrors have been inflicted upon innocent creatures because somebody wrote in the Bible that animals don’t have souls.

WesternDem

It’s quite Telling that Republicans even need to create an organization like this. If your party conducts a women’s healthcare summit…ABSENT any women…then your party is not engaged in understanding and siding with issues important to women. Sorry, there’s nothing manufactured about the GOP’s disdain for equal rights.

Anon

Seriously… do you not know about the Black Congressional Caucus, the Hispanic/Latino coalitions, the narrow-interest groups that thrive within the Democrat party that serve to keep groups separate and NOT EQUAL???? By the way, I’m a libertarian-minded woman of Latina/European heritage who would rather our government focus on principals of freedom and liberty for all rather than taking care of those who need to be given the opportunities and freedoms to take care of themselves.

Golden Guy

Funny, I was reading this morning that Obama’s White House Director of African American Mdia is getting a
Age pay raise. How’s that for devisive?

ENED

Anon – you are correct. It is amusing how the left attacks while they are the ones that have divided this country beginning with the slavery movement. They are still at it class warfare, gender warfare, political warfare, age warfare, religious warfare … mother against child with abortion, black on black, brown on brown, white on white and apologizing for Amerian Exceptionalism. Our country has NEVER been more divided thanks to WesternDem and their ilk destroying the country.

“All of your new laws, government bailouts and huge deficits haven’t made my life any better.”

The new laws haven’t taken effect yet, the bailouts occurred during the Bush administration, and the huge deficits are the results of Republican policies. So why is she an advocate for Republicans? She should be supporting Democrats.

Golden Guy

In the words of Joe Wilson, “you lie.”

TruthB

Golden example! A guy with words and people to take them in a direction.

Migrant

Obama is either a pathological liar or just too incompetent to carry out his promises.

Enedina

Dear Ben — you may want to get your facts straight. Yeah, so the first stimulus happened at the end of Bush’s term which was a false prop to begin with. I didn’t agree with it either. That said, Obama’s big boy pants are still sitting at the edge of his bed.
The massive spending by the Obama adminsitration to bring a fix made things worse, i.e. Cash for Clunkers, second stimulus, no budget in 3 plus years, 100s of rounds of golf, celebrity hob nobbing, michelle’s vacation, Malia’s spring break…. oh yeah, and then there’s the “Shovel Ready Jobs” program. I’m in an industry where this monopoly money never showed up and thousands lost jobs. I think the only thing shovel ready is this entire administration. Can you say “amatuer-in-chief”? If you don’ tlike America – go back to country of origin.

Golden Guy

Ms Carno has made her point about the Liberal War on Women. Mention women being concerned about more important issues like the economy and national debt that’s been exploding under Obama and the witches come out in force talking about abortion. They don’t like to confront the real issues before us and think women are superficial enough to vote on abortion as a single issue, overlooking the real political and economic landscape. Thanks for working to unite all of us, men and women behind a common mission and vision for the future of our country!

Judge Coke

“What the president fails to acknowledge is that the government doesn’t give us our rights. They simply are our rights. We just want the government out of our way.”
And if anyone somehow violates your rights, what are you going to do? The government runs the courts, and to file something in court, you have to show a violation of the law. The government passes the laws.
Maybe Laura Carno thinks a woman should ask God to smote any person who denies her of her rights, and if God doesn’t smote that person, then it must be God’s will.

Anonymous

The word is “smite” – “smote” is the past tense.

Vips

Oh no she is not dumb. She is smart (and perhaps rich as well because she is spending her own money). She is just using all this to advance herself. She fails to even acknowledge that women (especially
poor/low income single moms) face discrimination all along the way and if it were not for the ‘government’ (and of course other support groups like churches), they will have hard time even surviving. Now, I do not believe Government or money is the solution to these issues but to not even acknowledge it as an issue???

TruthB

Smart to use the republican smoke screen for promoting careers – the board and her future paycheck. The whole 527 political non profit campaign joy ride does not acknowledge ANYTHING. That is one smart limited edition soapbox! Picking up the smoke screen left by Ron Paul claiming to reverse the marijuana prohibition. Come on fish just get in the barrel!

“All of your new laws, government bailouts and huge deficits haven’t made my life any better.”
Assuming by “all your new laws” she means Obamacare, most of the bill hasn’t gone into effect. If you want to start a small business, it will make your life better because you’ll be able to buy into co-ops and provide insurance for your employees and yourself. The big bailouts occurred during the Bush administration, as did the huge deficits. So, Laura… The question is: what really is your problem? Are you just complaining for the sake of complaining?

TruthB

Colorado is swayed by a conversation. Voters are the pawns in the new say regulate because we don’t believe in that law. Just some trumped up complaining in conversations about marijuana worked wonders for republican funding. Imagine what trumped up images and voices of more made up conversations void of facts or purpose can attract.

NRKist

Ben, the smallest Obama deficit dwarfs the largest Bush deficit. Small businesses have been buying into insurance co-ops for years, so how does the PPACA change that (other than requiring that they provide insurance regardless of whether it truly is affordable)?

Steven B.

So, the “War on Women” is a prefab by the Dems?!?!

This woman is smoking pot as it is the GOP/Tea Party that is waging the war on women!!!!!!!!

I don’t think that it is my responsibility to make sure you (or your wife, daughter, etc.) does not get pregnant.
Let me repeat that in liberal-speak: “I don’t FEEL that it is my responsibility to make sure you (or your wife, daughter, etc.) goes not get pregnant.
Because I think you should buy your own condoms, then, I am promulgating a “war on women”.

Whatever.

Just Sayin

It is not your personal responsibility to ensure that anyone does/does not get pregnant, but I don’t see the government telling you as a MAN where you can or can’t deposit your sperm. I mean, honestly, what if there was an initiative that would require men to register ever time they ejaculated? It sounds outrageous and silly, but as a woman I find it absurd that the government wants to tell me that I have to do certain things before I can make decisions about my OWN body. I pay for my own birth control thank you very much. And old white men, they should be scared because they aren’t the future anymore. that’s what this debate is about. who has the power. and it’s not old white men anymore, it’s a black man named Barack OBAMA.

Golden Guy

The growing, liberal nanny state is increasingly telling you what you can do with your body, what you can eat, smoke, drink, etc. are you also standing up to that assault against your autonomy?

Migrant

“A black man named Barack Obama”? I thought he was white! He walks like a white (no bop in his step) He talks like a white (no ebonics, just a few mis uses of the English language) and He doesn’t say ax instead of ask.

Black Republican

You forgot to mention that Mr. Obama must be white because he wants to put people back into a state of dependency on the ‘Masta’.

yaakovwatkins

I have a wife and two daughters. All of whom I love dearly. I want what is best for them. The premise behind the “War on Women” is that men don’t love the women in their lives. That is simply false. If men were to accuse mothers of not loving their sons, of wanting to control and denigrate them, of caring more about maternal power than what is good for the boys, it would be seen as a stupid argument. Should we keep women from teaching boys in grade school so that the boys aren’t dominated by women? Obviously not. Mothers AND fathers love their children.
I remember the argument being made in the early 1960s that women should not be in congress because congress authorizes wars and women weren’t in combat. Therefore, they should not have the authority to decide whether we go to war. It reminds we of the idiocy that men should not have an opinion about abortion.

commenter

Does she know we have at least 2 corrupt Supreme Court Justices (Scalia and Thomas) who say that women are not Persons in the Constitution? They were both appointed by the GOP.

What utter cluelessness. They have never said that. It has been liberal justices that have said that unborn people are not people and that blacks aren’t people.

But I’m sure this won’t make any difference to you. Facts don’t matter to people stuck in their liberal talking points box.

1&done

Nice to meet this years Sarah Palin.

Black Republican

Still afraid of Sarah?

LoLo

The REAL “War on Women”? Groceries or Gas. Thanks, Obama. By the way, I’m not Julia.

Migrant

Where is the White Congressional Caucus?

Rock71

Men got the right to vote by paying for it with their own blood on the battlefield. Women came along twenty years later and demanded the right to vote when all the risk was over. I am tired of hearing women complain about a “war on women” because they have to pay for their own contraceptives. Spend two years in Iraq dodging IED’s and bullets like I and my brothers did and are doing and then talk to me with a straight face about the “war on women.”

Migrant 3

Rock71: We all appreciate your service to our country, but, you seem to forget the women who served along side of you in Iraq.

Anonymous

Goddess Hates Red states: floods, fires, droughts, tornadoes, derechos. Give women back control over their bodies or face annihilation. Goddess is not pleased with conservatives and is busy making them suffer. Save yourself. Reject the false god of the Big Penis in the Sky.

Joey Bunch has been a reporter for 28 years, including the last 12 at The Denver Post. For various newspapers he has covered the environment, water issues, politics, civil rights, sports and the casino industry.